Towards Zero new Agatha Christie

Sparklefizz

luluaugust

I am sure Agatha would be amazed, specially the sex on the stairs!! Just read the book, Joan Hickson it ain’t

Why would you have uncomfortable sex on the stairs when there were all those bedrooms empty?

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A frisson of excitement at the possibility of getting caught?

I do not speak from experience btw!

It was spoilt by trying to bring a story set in the mid 1900s up to date. I watched it all but was not impressed. I've seen much better versions that portrayed the time in which the story was set.

luluaugust

I am sure Agatha would be amazed, specially the sex on the stairs!! Just read the book, Joan Hickson it ain’t

I found that really weird and quite disgusting. What sort of mind thought that up I wonder.

I started to watch it and after 10 mins . Only cast member I recognised was Angelica Huston. I liked the Miss Marple version with Eileen Atkins ,Tom Baker ,Julian Sands and the rest.

I liked the old Pale Horse version with Julie Mackenzie,but also liked the version on BBC with Rufus Swell , BBC ,'And then there were none ' was very good with Charles Dance and other well known actors . BBC version of Murder is easy also very good as was ITV . But didn't like BBC version of ABC murders but liked the David Suchet version .

'Why didn't they ask Evans ' was very good on ITV and think it was on 5 was good as well.

Best Miss Marple Joan Hickson and Julie McKenzie. David Suchet was Poriot ( not spelt correctly) not Kenneth B.

Do like David Walliams and the woman out of call the midwife as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford on BBC. Think Francesca Annis was in the old ITV version .

Given up.

Ilovedogs22

I wonder what upgrades your talking about Mollygo?
Nudge, nudge, wink,wink! 😙

Exactly those.

I wonder what upgrades your talking about Mollygo?
Nudge, nudge, wink,wink! 😙

Totally underwhelmed by it.

For me the good news was DH didn’t like it either, so we don’t have to watch anymore. I like to give new versions a try, but I didn’t see the point of the upgrades in this one.

luluaugust

I am sure Agatha would be amazed, specially the sex on the stairs!! Just read the book, Joan Hickson it ain’t

Why would you have uncomfortable sex on the stairs when there were all those bedrooms empty?

I am sure Agatha would be amazed, specially the sex on the stairs!! Just read the book, Joan Hickson it ain’t

wibblywobblywobblebottom

A new version which I have no intention of watching.

Good for you wibblywobblywobblebottom,
It will probably be all sexed-up & full of newly-fledged drama school, posho twits! Or even possibly worst, full of nepo- brats who can't act for ruddy toffee. 🤔

moJack26 thanks for explaining the darkness on my screen due to me not having a UHD tv, that explains a lot.

Hear, hear Witzend, I couldn't agree with you more.
Joan Hickson was brilliant as Miss Marple & the scripts weren't messed about with then either. 🤔

Nowhere near as good as previous version and I’ve watched all 3 episodes.

I've not read the book or seen any of the other versions of it, but we watched it as it was being filmed at a National Trust property we visited last year, so wanted to try and pick parts of it out.

I thought it was quite slow, and I don't think I'll bother watching the other two episodes, although as my husband enjoyed it, I will no doubt watch with one eye and listen with one ear whilst doing something else when it's on.

A new version which I have no intention of watching.

I was looking forward to this but found it utterly tedious and switched off after half an hour

I hate it when they bugger about with AC’s stories. And I agree 100% with AGAA4 re atmosphere - best example was IMO Sleeping Murder, Joan Hickson version, which had some seriously creepy moments. The ITV remake with whoever played Miss Marple was rubbish - absolutely zero atmosphere.

Joan Hickson was of course the definitive Miss Marple - Agatha herself wanted her for the role.

Just took a look at the synopsis. I think he's Superintendent Battle's nephew, Inspector Leach.

Battle and his family are supposed to be holidaying with the nephew and Leach asks him for advice about the case. I hope the Battle family is not written out of this version.

I think it's supposed to be him Allira

I demoted him - it's Superintendent Battle!
That's not the drunken policeman, surely?

Grandmabatty

Sharr, the original story doesn't have Marple or Poirot either.

I didn't think it did, either.

It's based on an Inspector Battle book, isn't it?

I liked the scenery as I know the coastal area but to my mind it wasn't shown off to its best in this production. As for frequent drownings that were mentioned when trying to get across to the island, well, you can walk across when the tide's out or go on the wonderful tractor.

I didn't remember a house like that being on the cliff either but apparently that's located somewhere else, Wiltshire, possibly.

Sharr, the original story doesn't have Marple or Poirot either.

I think not having a Poirot or Miss Marple figure didn't work. The police man seemed to suddenly find the threads to solve the case out of thin air!